(price- and corner-clipped) [ex-school library book w/minimal markings (just top edge stamp and pocket on rear fep) and some tape still stuck to covers where jacket had been affixed; tape was not attached directly to jacket, though, and although the jacket is somewhat soiled it still looks quite presentable in a new Brodart cover]. A novel of the Civil War. Endpaper illustration and small map depicting the Battle of Gettysburg. View More...
[nice copy, the faintest bit of edgewear to covers, some discoloration around perimeter of the inside front cover and inside rear cover, short diagonal crease at one top page corner]. Trade PB Civil War novel, set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri. Basis for Ang Lee's 1999 film RIDE WITH THE DEVIL. View More...
[clean, solid copy with minimal shelfwear; jacket has some very shallow chipping along the top edge, a couple of tiny tears and associated creasing at bottom edge of front panel] A novel set against the background of the international opium trade in the 1830s. The author "pictures life in the native quarters, aboard the fast-sailing opium clippers, in the English and American business houses in Canton where the young men were hopeful Anthony Adverses, and the women were scarce -- none of them allowed nearer than the Portuguese port of Macao. Eccentric missionaries, epicurean merchants, ... View More...
